Sunday, October 23, 2011

Can our students all be geniouses?

I discovered this great video on education on YouTube while looking for the cartoon that follows. I've seen others by this group RSA. It's a look at education - why, for whom, etc. - and creativity. Are we educating creativity out of our students?

Here's the cartoon I saw on Facebook. I can't figure out what the original is.

We're theoretically supposed to be providing diversified teaching, but it's hard with a classroom filled to the window-sills. But politicians evidently don't want students to be creative.

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Inspired by Nelson Mandela's claim that the impossible is just waiting to be done, this blog chronicles my own journey to do the impossible. I am embarking on another new career as a high school math and science teacher . . . and I don't really think it's impossible - just really hard these days to land a job.I am finally a credentialed "single-subject" teacher of math, science, physics, chemistry and biology -- looking for the job to use my skills to help motivate students to enjoying my favorite subjects!